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itself ; upon further inquiry, desirable to be communicated. The 

 institution is one of great importance, and will serve as a model 

 for others ; and several, in different parts of the country, through 

 the public-spirited exertions of several gentlemen, who are large 

 landholders; are in the process of being formed. I shall conclude 

 the account with the production, the current year, (1844,) of six 

 teen and a half acres of land upon this farm, which the manager, 

 in whose established character I have entire confidence, has been 

 pleased to give me. In my experience, the yield has not been 

 surpassed. 



From these sixteen and one half English acres, he has fed 

 entirely, from the 4th of April to the 18th of August, seventeen 

 milch cows, one bull, six young stock,. two horses, and one pony. 

 Of one acre in vetches, he has used one half the crop ; the rest 

 remains. Of one acre in cabbages, he has sold two thirds, and 

 used one third ; the two thirds having brought him by the sale 

 13 sterling ; and from the same sixteen and a half acres he 

 has cut and cured, and has in stack, twenty-eight tons of well- 

 made hay, from rye-grass. I took this statement down from his 

 own mouth, with the stack of hay before me, the quantity of 

 which was ascertained by cubic measurement, by a rule which 

 is considered established and accurate. 



XXIV. DUBLIN BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



In the neighborhood of Dublin is a Botanical Garden, compre 

 hending twenty-seven acres, enclosed by a high stone wall, with 

 a beautiful rivulet running through it, with ample and elegant 

 conservatories and greenhouses, and in the highest state of cul 

 tivation and embellishment. It is supported partly by private 

 subscription, and partly by donations from the government. It 

 is a beautiful retreat, and open to all persons two days in a week, 

 with intelligent and courteous superintendents to show and ex 

 plain every thing. To my inquiry of the superintendent 

 whether he suffered any injury from the visitors plucking the 

 flowers, or breaking the plants, he replied, very little, if any ; none 



